What is a Kowhai pattern?
What is a Kowhai pattern?
Kowhai Ngutukākā: The kowhai ngutukākā can be found in a kowhaiwhai pattern. It represents the flowers of the kākā beak plant. Rauru: This shape is the spiral and it shares a similar meaning to a koru representing new life, growth, strength and peace.
What do Kowhaiwhai patterns meaning?
The kowhaiwhai painted on the ridgepole represents the whakapapa (genealogy) of the iwi (tribe). Nature is often the inspiration for these beautiful and stunning patterns which are often found on the rafters of the meeting houses.
How are Kowhaiwhai patterns made?
The students create patterns using single transformations and combinations of transformations. as a team project involving young as well as old. All kōwhaiwhai have meanings and are not just ornamental. Both questions in this activity involve practical work, and the students may create very different patterns.
What features do Kowhaiwhai patterns include?
The patterns involve symmetry, translation and rotation. These elements of design make each kowhaiwhai patterns in the wharenui interesting and unique.
What do Māori patterns mean?
A Maori twist symbolises the path of life. It is believed to have been based on Maori kete basket weaving. The path of life takes many twists and turns but carries on regardless. In the case of the Single Twist, the design means the path of life and can be called the Maori Eternity Symbol.
What are Tukutuku patterns?
Tukutuku or arapaki is a type of ornamental weaving using reed latticework rather than threads. It is used mainly to adorn the inside walls of wharenui (meeting houses). Traditional tukutuku is made from kākaho (toetoe reeds) set vertically side by side, with kaho (horizontal wooden laths) lashed in front of them.
What are the names of different Kowhaiwhai patterns?
The various designs have fanciful names, such as mangopare (hammer-headed shark), kowhai-ngutu-kaka (flower of the kaka beak), ngutukura (red beak, or red lips), and so on. Kowhaiwhai design reached its most developed form in the Gisborne district.
Why is Kowhaiwhai important to Māori?
Kōwhaiwhai are traditional Māori painted scroll patterns. Kōwhaiwhai are mainly used for decorative purposes, so you often see kōwhaiwhai designs adorning the ridgepole and rafters of wharenui – meeing houses.
What are some Māori symbols?
There are six extremely popular symbols used time and time again in pounamu carving, they are the koru, the twist, the manaia, the tiki, the fish hook and the toki blade. Let’s explore the symbolism and meaning behind each.
What are some New Zealand symbols?
Unofficial emblems
| Symbol | |
|---|---|
| National bird | Kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) |
| National plant | Silver fern (Cyathera dealbata) |
| National flower | Kōwhai (Sophora tetraptera) |
| National personification | Zealandia |
What are Kowhaiwhai patterns?
At first, kowhaiwhai patterns can be viewed as a means of decoration only, but closer examination reveals sophisticated mathematical precision involving symmetry, rotation, reflection and translation. The koru or pitau is the most basic design element of kowhaiwhai.
What is kōwhai imagery?
Kōwhai imagery is popular in art works and has been used on postage stamps and coins.
Where can I find kōwhai?
Sophora microphylla is the most widespread species of kōwhai being found throughout both the North and South Island. In the wild, some species are restricted to the North Island ( S. fulvida, S. godleyi, S. tetraptera and probably S. chathamica) and others to the South Island ( S. longicarinata and S. prostrata ).
What does a kōwhai pod look like?
All species of kōwhai produce pods with abundant hard-coated yellow to yellow-brown seeds. Abrasion of this hard seed coat is needed before germination can happen. Distribution of kōwhai
